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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
360 griffons at Lago di Cornino – a new record for Italy
Two days ago, Fulvio Genero, a VCF advisory board member and long-term ...
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Migration time – Egyptian vultures on the move!
Following Faia and Douro, Egyptian vulture Bruçó – one of the 5 ...
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Black vulture seen in Lisbon
An immature black vulture was seen last Sunday (3rd September) in Queluz, ...
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Almost 2500 griffon vultures counted summering in the western Alps in 2017 – an increase of 40% on previous years
This summer´s census of summering griffon vultures in the western Alps, which ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 2 – Bearded vulture – did you know…?
…that 100 years after the killing of the last wild bearded vulture ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 1 – Griffon vulture – did you know…?
…that Spain has around 25,000 pairs of griffon vulture, up from only ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 6 – vet diclofenac – did you know…?
…that the legal sale of vet diclofenac in Europe is now putting ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 5 – European vultures – did you know…?
…that Europe is now the “reservoir” of the old-world species, and the ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 4 – European black vulture – did you know…?
…that the species has increased substantially in Spain, from 250 pairs in ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 3 – Egyptian vulture – did you know…?
…that the Egyptian vulture is the only European species still declining? It ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day is coming – some of our zoo partners are organizing great events!
International Vulture Awareness Day is already this weekend, and some of our ...
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Egyptian vulture Faia is already in Africa!
Barely two days after leaving the Douro region, the female Egyptian vulture ...
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Three Egyptian vultures tagged in the Douro named – and one of them has already started the migration to Africa.
The three adult Egyptian vultures captured and tagged this summer within the ...
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Another step towards the adoption of the Vulture MsAP – all together 4 Vultures!
The Vulture multi-Species Action Plan – an ambitious but badly needed global ...
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Mixed results in this year´s experimental release of captive-bred Egyptian vultures in Italy – 1 bird died and 2 had to be recaptured, but Apollo is doing well
Early this month four young Egyptian vultures, all captive-bred in the Egyptian ...
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Bearded vulture reintroduction projects 2017 – stories from the field II: Cleo broke her wing just before release but is still flying free above Andalusia
A total of 18 young bearded vultures was released this Spring-Summer in ...
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Bearded vulture reintroduction projects 2017 – stories from the field I: the long flight of Durzon!
A total of 18 young bearded vultures was released this Spring-Summer in ...
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Two bearded vulture chicks fledge in the wild in Andalusia
Following the first breeding in the wild two years ago, after extinction ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day is already on the 2nd September!
Vultures play a very important role in the world´s ecosystem – they ...
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